Professor Tara Wallace: This Weekend at the Jane Austen Society of North America

Join us tomorrow, Thursday March 22nd, in Gelman 102 for the next installment of the  Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series  featuring:  Lauren Camp A poet, performer, writer, and educator, Lauren Camp will read from the latest of her three books  of poetry,   One Hundred Hungers,  a collection that “explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and…

  Clockwise from Upper Left to Right: Sarah Schulman; Manuel Muñoz; Jordy Rosenberg; K. Tyler Christensen This spring, students in Professor Robert McRuer’s English 3840W, “Contemporary LGBT Writing,” will have four “live” visits from some of the authors they are reading, and after a class visit, the authors themselves will be virtually on campus for…

TRANSVISCERAL The George Washington University February 6, 2015 Paper Proposal Deadline: December 12, 2014 Keynote speaker: Sharon P. Holland, Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Raising the Dead: Reading of Death and (Black) Subjectitivity (2000) and, most recently, The Erotic Life of Racism (2012). In…

All events are free and open to the public; seating is limited. The Marvin Center is found at 800 21st St. NW, while Rome Hall and the Visitor Center are parts of the Academic Center complex, at 801 22nd St. NW. SEPT. 27 RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE 8 PM Marvin Center Amphitheatre Ryan G. Van…

Call for Papers:  (re)collections: Tracing Power and Community in Cultural Memory English Graduate Student Association Symposium 2017 Date: Friday, February 24, 2017 Location: 219 Gelman Library (2130 H St NW, Washington, DC 20052) Keynote Speaker: Samantha Pinto, Georgetown University The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) at George Washington University is excited to announce our 2017…

The Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival begins this Sunday and GW English is pleased to note that our alum David Bruce Smith (BA, 1979) is on the “Local Author Fair” roster for his new book American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.  John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice…